File:Solar Ponds in the Great Salt Lake next to Stanbury Island, Utah (68942671).jpg
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DescriptionSolar Ponds in the Great Salt Lake next to Stanbury Island, Utah (68942671).jpg |
The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world. In an average year the lake covers an area of around 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2), but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its shallowness. For instance, in 1963 it reached its lowest recorded level at 950 square miles (2,460 km²), but in 1988 the surface area was at the historic high of 3,300 square miles (8,500 km2). In terms of surface area, it is the largest lake in the United States that is not part of the Great Lakes region. The lake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric pluvial lake that once covered much of western Utah. The three major tributaries to the lake, the Jordan, Weber, and Bear rivers together deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in the lake each year. As it is endorheic (has no outlet besides evaporation), it has very high salinity, far saltier than sea water, and its mineral content is constantly increasing. Its shallow, warm waters cause frequent, sometimes heavy lake-effect snows from late fall through spring. Although it has been called "America's Dead Sea", the lake provides habitat for millions of native birds, brine shrimp, shorebirds, and waterfowl, including the largest staging population of Wilson's Phalarope in the world. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...</a> |
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Source | Solar Ponds in the Great Salt Lake next to Stanbury Island, Utah |
Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
Camera location | 40° 47′ 43.29″ N, 112° 36′ 42.92″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 40.795358; -112.611923 |
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
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Camera model | Canon PowerShot A70 |
Exposure time | 1/1,000 sec (0.001) |
F-number | f/5.6 |
Date and time of data generation | 15:37, 10 July 2005 |
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Horizontal resolution | 180 dpi |
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File change date and time | 15:37, 10 July 2005 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 15:37, 10 July 2005 |
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